Photoshop and Illustrator - How good does it get?Written by Maricon Williams
Which is better program – Photoshop or Illustrator? Many of us are still entertaining hazy notions about two programs. It is high time to distinguish two - which is which really? To boot, Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap image processing and manipulation program. It is well matched with creating, transforming and outputting digital images of a photographic nature which share common pixels in a bitmap. Its primary operations include access or acquisition of photographic digital graphics; alter, transform, modify, and colorize pixels in images; produce digital files and prepare complicated color or black and white images for further processing. Photoshop manipulates individual color pixels within a fixed bitmap. A less costly version of Photoshop is Photoshop Elements (PSE). It can do 90% of what Photoshop does without higher-end pre-press printing capabilities. Adobe Illustrator, on other hand, is a vector-based postscript drawing program which creates curved paths called Bezier curves connected by modifiable anchor points. Through these anchors, file is eventually editable since they do not leave file. Vector based drawing program create various elements of image as individual vector objects which retain their characteristics and do not become a piece of a bitmap. Illustrator can do many things just like Photoshop. It can do everything that a graphic designer wants to be done except manipulate photos.
| | Print Shop Deluxe empowering users to do publishingWritten by Granny’s Mettle
Professional and business-looking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that it's a lot of work for me.Broderbund's "The Print Shop" has been doing that for its clients, particularly users who need a quick, easy and affordable way to do basic publishing activities. Now comes another version of popular Print Shop program that lets you design or adapt over 11,000 templates of everything--- from greeting cards and photo albums, to signs, banners, and even calendars. The Print Shop Deluxe 12.0 is for kids, as well as for those kids-at-heart, who love idea of churning out fun projects. Aside from turning regular banners and greeting cards into great works that ensures attraction, newest edition of 16-year-old printing and desktop publishing program includes a photo editor and tools that can help users produce simple paper products from menus to other marketing products. It also has easy-to-use interface, and a great online support. Print Shop 12.0 is easy to use, never mind that program has six CDs of clip art. One review even stated that you might need to find enough drive space for whole "monster program". The review even said that even if one should stick with minimum installation option, program still needs 670MB of drive space. On other hand, if one should decide to just keep extra clip art CDs handy, swapping them every time you need an image may be a time-consuming alternative.
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